Jonathan Grout

Jonathan Grout (23 July 1737-8 September 1807) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 8) from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1791, preceding George Thatcher.

Biography
Jonathan Grout was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts in 1737, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 as a Democratic-Republican. He went on to build the first optical telegraph in the United States, and he died in 1807.